The social expectation that a romantic relationship should automatically follow a set of steps and lead to marriage, parenthood, and home ownership. This term is used primarily by people who want to get "off the escalator," who want to judge the success of relationships by criteria other than how smoothly and automatically the relationship gets more serious.
One sample template is "Meet someone > Dating > Sex > Move in together > Get married > Have kids"
Doing these things out of order is being off the relationship escalator: if you have sex on a first date, many people think your relationship can't, or shouldn't, eventually become more serious. If you move in with someone, moving back out again usually means that the relationship is over. Being polyamorous or participating in other kinds of non-monogamy is also being off the relationship escalator.
We broke up because he wanted to be on the relationship escalator, and I prefer to live alone.
Your dating profile suggests you're not on the relationship escalator, so you need to explain specifically what you're looking for.
1. during a threesome involving one man and two women. the women are stacked stomach too back and the man assumes a kneeling position behind them and proceeds to push his penis from one girl to the next, starting with the bottom girl working his way up. Or reverse the order and direction for variations.
The highlight of my threesome was when i pulled the escalator on the two of them. Next time I think I'm gonna add another floor!
moving staircase (not to be confused with the moving staircases in Harry Potter) used to make walking up stairs easier. Its like taking the worst part about elevators (makes you fat) and stairs (takes too long) and putting it all in one convenient location.
Guy 1: Dude lets take the escalator
Guy 2: Why?
Guy 1: Because escalators are slow and make me fat!
Someone who feels they must treat an escalator as a staircase, bringing guilt to the rest of the parties on the escalator, unless they also do so.
Jane: "Why is that girl bounding up the escalator like it's a flight of stairs? She's making the rest of us look lazy for just standing here riding it!"
Jill: "She's a total escalator overachiever."